Comments on: Vicks VapoRub on Feet

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:52:41 +0000

Isn’t it amazing? Nice little trick to have up your sleeve…good sleep is so necessary to getting back to health. Hope you are feeling 100% soon! Thanks for chiming in here about your experience, Amy!

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:05:16 +0000

this works - I did it last night after my coworker told me it would help me not to cough at night when I’m sleeping. I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night coughing all week… so last night I tried this and it worked. I slept through the night, then woke up coughing at 8am

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:46:06 +0000

It is amazing. I had a hard time believing it also…but when you get desperate to end a lingering cough, you’ll try anything! It’s a wonderful remedy, glad you vouched for it here for me!

Thanks for commenting!

By: Chan Hoo

Chan Hoo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:27:39 +0000

I didn’t beleive at fiest. My wife was complaining about my cough when the weather gets cold. Heard about putting Vicks under the sole of the foot. Did it work . Have pass on this knowledge to my friends.

By: Home-Steeped Hope » Seeing Things

Home-Steeped Hope » Seeing Things — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:31:08 +0000

[...] just discussing my stance on letting fevers run their course in the comments of the Vick’s VapoRub on Feet post, you all would have been raising your eyebrows at my frenzied run for the cupboard and some [...]

By: Phentramin-D

Phentramin-D — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:40:40 +0000

Vicks VapoRub seems to tirgger the immune system to kick into overdrive. Vicks VapoRub can also be used to fight HPV–the virus that causes warts of all kins. It does this by causing the immune system to go into overdrive and eventually find the virus where the rub is applied. This could be why your remedy works. If you really want to kick the cold’s but, try giving your kids lots of onions and even garlic. Onions really stimulate the immune system and garlic is a very powerful natural antibiotic. You can cut a hole in the onion top and put sugar in it, eventually the sugar becomes a liquid and you can drink it.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:34:43 +0000

Thanks for sharing that, Amy. I’m curious as to what you’ve heard about Tylenol. I’d heard that it can cause liver damage if used too often. And it’s always touted as the “safest”…anyway, it’s good to hear your thoughts, knowing you come from a medical background, and also that your M.D. says the same thing. Fevers get such a bad rap, don’t they?

A couple of weeks ago I overheard someone talking about how their toddler had been sick for over a week with fevers every night, and that they were giving them Motrin and then Tylenol every four to six hours around the clock. Which is just what most Pediatrician’s recommend, alternating from one to the other. But all I could think was, how would their child get over the sickness if they were constantly suppressing the symptoms and the fever, the body’s natural defense against whatever it was fighting off. I wondered if that in itself was why it took the child so long to get better. But she did get better, and w/o antibiotics as far as I know.

By: Amy M (since there are two Amy's)

Amy M (since there are two Amy's) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:44:40 +0000

I know this post is not very recent, but I wanted to comment on fevers and Tylenol, as well. Our Pediatrician encourages us not to use Tylenol except maybe once at night (mostly so the baby is able to rest) and to let her fever run its course during the day, as she is naturally fighting the sickness then. They seemed relatively unconcerned when my daughters temp reached 104 a couple of months ago. (Of course, in an infant under 6 months, this is much more serious). My SIL, however, gave me a scare when she told me that a friend’s daughter had a febrile seizure and had some sort of permanent damage. I researched that and the truth is, febrile seizures generally aren’t harmful and will not cause brain damage. Most children can tolerate a temperature of slightly greater than 107 degrees F without long-term effects from the fever itself. That being said, steps should be taken to lower the temp (not necessarily Tylenol).
Anyway, this info is a comfort to me when daughter starts feeling warm.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:25:45 +0000

Hey, I feel like I could wave at you after just wondering how you guys were and your quick reply! So glad you had a good night’s sleep for the most part, I was laying in bed at 1 A.M. praying for you guys! Hubby was out working on our well (replacing pump, etc in that blizzard!!) so we didn’t get to bed till then. Anyway, I’m encouraged that you all are on the road to recovery, you’ve had a long week for it only being Thursday!

My hubby was really skeptical about the hp in the ears, but thankfully we’ve never had any adverse effects and I’ve been doing it for a year now. We’ve never been susceptible to ear infections either, if we were, I might think about it twice, as moisture can breed bacteria. In normal cases, I would just keep administering the hp till the symptoms are really on their way out the door! Better safe than sorry. Even if you decrease from 2x a day to 1x once you feel the girls are over their fevers.

And a note on the fevers, I sure relate to hating it to go above a certain degree, it’s so miserable, but my top out for the girls was always at 102* until I read in a pediatrician’s book to relax about it and let the fever fight off the sickness. Since then I’ve let my children’s fevers spike to 104, and it seems to shorten their sick time a lot. Of course, I keep a close eye on them, and have to constantly remember my mantra: “Fever is a blessing!”. Sigh. The nice thing about it, is not only does that fever burn the sickness out more quickly, but it usually immobilizes the child so that they don’t overdo, rather they sleep. I’m not against Tylenol at night, if I know they’re too miserable to get the sleep they need. The thing to watch for when the fevers get high, is dehydration. I’d never let it go above 105*, and would push the fluids hard, especially if they are losing even more fluids as in vomiting and diarrhea. But I have a lot of trust in the healing power of the human body, and I’ve heard that the natural defenses of our makeup don’t allow for temps higher than 106*, except in the cases of heat stroke. ‘

Sorry that got so long. It just really gave me a peace of mind to view it that way, and to have a pediatrician back it up. (Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D. How to Raise a Healthy Child In Spite of Your Doctor)

By: Haley

Haley — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:43:44 +0000

Hee hee we were writing at the same time! My speech pathologist sister said they recommend hp for when you have swimmers ear because that’s actually a drop of water on your eardrum, and the hp dries it. She had a&p of the inner ear in college, and when I told her about the hp treatments was a little skeptical, and said you definitely wouldn’t want to do it if you had a hole in your eardrum, but otherwise she didn’t think it could hurt. Such an expert opinion. Can ya’ll tell this is my younger sister? I know, I should give her more credit!